Thank you so much for this list. I've tuned into about half of what was on your list so I'll have some great homework, here in March of 2023 haha. Big props on the Altars record especially, I listened to that one on repeat for about a week straight!
Negative Plane is great but I need way more time with it. It didn't click with me as immediately as the last album of theirs I had (which was the first) but I'm sure it will. The Chasm, man, I wish my CD had arrived in time!
Thanks a lot for including me in your chart (I'm the cosmic putrefaction guy). Also well deserved for faceless burial, enormous release and incredible live band! Cheers
Well deserved man! Love your Turris Ebernea project as well, and only just learned of Vertebra Atlantis this week! Agreed, Faceless Burial are crushing live
Great selection ! I come back very often to your list to discover a ton of incredible albums !! I'm into TZOMPANTLI now !! Hope this band will get more tribal in their next release, as much as Sepultura. Thanks & cheers from Belgium.
Discovered your channel last year (2022) and have since devoured your content as and when it drops (working my way through the back catalogue). Was meaning to say hey at the Blood Incantation/Dead Congregation show in Sydney but never quite found the time! Have discovered a lot of new (and old) stuff through the channel so big thanks for your work! Anyway, great list mate! Really need to check out that Jade record and start a deep-dive into Swartadauþuz' stuff, but have been running months behind the release train this year so have a heap to catch up on, so no doubt this list will change a few months into 2023. You had a bit of crossover with my list which ended up like: Honourable Mentions: Gevurah - Gehinnom Golgothan Remains - Adorned in Ruin Kampfar - Til Klovers Takt Phobophilic - Enveloping Absurdity Tzompantli - Tlazcaltiliztli Top 10: 10. Immolation - Acts of God 9. Suppression - The Sorrow of Soul Through Flesh 8. Tómarúm - Ash in Realms of Stone Icons 7. Chaotian - Effigies of Obsolescence 6. Faceless Burial - At the Foothills of Deliration 5. Negative Plane - The Pact 4. Satan - Earth Infernal 3. Schizophrenia - Recollections of the Insane 2. Rotten Tomb - Visions of Dismal Fate 1. Doldrum - The Knocking, or the Story of the Sound That Preceded Their Disappearance Happy New Year, best wishes and looking forward to more great stuff in 2023!
Hey mate! Absolutely tap me on the shoulder at a gig and say hi. I'll be at the key international bands coming up! Great list from you there, glad to see more love for Doldrum. In all honesty Chaotian and Phobophilic should have been on my list too, and I need to spend more time with The Pact. A couple here I don't know at all so will check out!
Digging that Doldrum album 👌. I'm getting a less chaotic Ulthar feel to it,love it, considering I'm loving everything about Ulthar at this point. Lots of bands to check out , thanks for the list of bands to check out.great video.
Great list of albums of the year. That Faceless Burial is most excellent. Arizmenda - Spider's lust in Dungeon's dust is a highlight for me this year. Saw them live twice this year and picked up their new album at their most recent show and really glad I did! Nothing else like it.
several killer albums you mentioned I relly enjoy but still need to pick up. well since you asked for some albums to check out here you go. Morbikon-Ov Mournful Twilight Vicious Knights-Alteration Through Possession Cryptivore-Celestial Extinction Ante Inferno-Antediluvian Dreamscapes Ultra Silvam-The Sanctity of Death Black Beast-Arctic Darkness
Great picks and deep (unknown to me) cuts, thanks for sharing. Finally checked out Faceless Burial after watching and IT PLOWS. Have spun the Ostots & Nocuturnal Triumph lots as well. Happy New Year!
Simon your charnel, Explosive Action, is incredible!! I tune in every time I see a new video you've posted and have checked out (bought) MANY of your suggestions!! This year's list has a lot of records I've put on MY own year end list! The AKOLYYTTI, the COSMIC PUTREFACTION and THERIOMORPH have been on a steady rotation... All the best man for 2023!! Keep up those "Updates" and be safe! 🤘🤘🤘
Nifty idea including an artist spotlight as part of your top list. I keep meaning to listen to the two Trolldom records. That Jade album would probably have made my top ten but I have only listened to it twice. My Top 8, which includes a couple of post metal/post rock records. 1. Russian Circles- Gnosis 2. White Ward- False Light 3. Desecresy- Unveil in The Abyss 4. Panzerfaust- The Suns of Perdition Chapter III 5. Lost in Kiev- Rupture 6. Innumerable Forms- Philosophical Collapse 7. Vital Spirit- Still as The Night, Cold as The Wind 8. Specrum Mortis- Bit Meseri/ The Incantation
Good list, and plenty things for me to look for. Some recommendations for you in case you've missed them. Mnima - Disciples of Excremental Liturgies (caustic black noise from Greece), Ashenspire = Hostile Architecture (think A Forest of Stars meets Chat Pile), Am Himmel - As Eternal as the Starless Kingdom of Sorrow (mystical black metal that feels like being in a religious trance), Bad Manor - The Haunting (Spoopy black metal that recalls Edward Gorey's illustration in both theme and mood), and Unyielding Love - Flesh of the Furnace (dissonant blackened death). Hopefully that gives some fun things for you to listen 😊
@@ExplosiveAction It's always a pleasure to discover new music, and thanks to you I have a pretty long list as well. Oh, forgot to add one. If you liked the folk from Doldrum, make sure to check Vile Haint - Sacrificial Baptism in Murky Waters. Raw black metal with _deep_ roots in the southern folklore of the banks of the Mississippi. Exceptional stuff
Awesome list! 2022 has been a great year for Death Metal. Some of my tops this year (not in any rank order): Faceless Burial Vacuous Universally Estranged Chaotian Sépulcre (Fra) Phobophilic Decapitated Ripped to Shreds
Decapitated don't do much for me since Winds of Creation haha, but the rest here are all good - well I am assuming the Universally Estranged is, as I haven't got mine yet!
@@ExplosiveAction indeed Universally Estranged: Dimension of Deviant Clusters is quite good. Pry tied with Chaotian for my fav this year.. it will def be worth your patience when it's in your possession.
Apart from the Theriomorph and Altars Ablaze, the BM stuff here is for the most part unknown to me. But I have not been in my normal BM mood this year, to much great DM this year. Our lists will be very different this year, will try to shoot mine tomorrow. Jade is still glimbing on my list, great album. Altars is one I need some more time with. Not surprised to see Faceless Burial on top of your list. Have a excellent new year. Cheers.
Wormrot's Hiss and Blood Incantation's Timewave Zero were my top metal-related albums. Was mainly on a country and folk tip this year. Loved your list.
Thanks for these great recommendations. I’ve been out of the black metal scene for a few years and wasn’t aware of most of these bands or albums. Currently playing Vacuous and Jade and I’m impressed. After I digest those I’ll go through more of these albums.
Fantastic list Simon, echo your thoughts on how strong 2022 was for releases. That Jade album is superb, I love me some Ruins of Beverast so they instantly clicked for me. All the best to you and your family in 2023 🤘
Soild list right there Simon! Obviously I’m not familiar with the BM releases… but as I’m trying to educate myself a bit more on the different styles within the genre… it gives me a few more to check out! I really need to pickup a few of the others that you showed… especially… the ‘Blasphematory’ release! Always good to see you Simon & all the best for 2023… from your friend ‘Cark G’… lol!🤘🏻
Was looking foward to this video, excellent choices Simon! Never got around to Faceless Burial among the swathes of other releases. I'm sure Marc G will forgive you... he'll love to hear your Enchanting thoughts about the album sometime in 2023.
Great list Simon. I always enjoy your videos. I need to check out that Jade album. One album i feel flew under the radar this year is from Pharmacist out of japan. Andrew Lee plays guitar on the whole album. It has a Carcass vibe to it.
The new LP from Abysmal Lord 'Bestiary of Immortal Hunger' squeaked in on the heels of the last days of the year to make my number one pick up for me in 2022. One of the best black/death war metal bands around and improve with every release !!! 🏆🔥🤘😈🤘
@@ExplosiveAction I totally agree that Antichrist Siege Machine album is amazing. I got stuck on them since their first demo and each following release has never disappointed and only improves.
You are allowed to break your own rules! I did too in my top 5: 1. Marillion - An Hour Before it's Dark (not metal at all) 2. Devin Townsend - Lightwork (metal adjacent?) 3. White Ward - False Light 4. Nechochwen - Kanawha Black 5. Nokturnal Mortum - To Lunar Poetry (re-recording of an old demo)
You are REALLY awesome, sir! After seeing a handful of your videos I gotta subscribe!!! Its rare to find a guy like you with your knowledge and taste in metal, that isn't a straight up asshole.
blasphematory, eskhaton, tzompanti would all make my list too.most everything else i havent heard yet, so alot for me to check out, things not listed i would include= ares kingdom, acid witch, bloodstorm, disma, sacrocurse. hmm, thats all that comes to mind right now. in the realms of more traditional/doom eric wagner's s/t, early moods and savage master need mentioning. i know i'm forgetting a bunch of stuff, but oh well. feel that once i hear more of what ive missed it will have been a monster year, as its already shook out pretty darn good for me. cheers simon. have agreat new year ..
IDK if you like that really Running Wild-style melodic death metal that the controversial band Arghoslent makes, but if you like them (hopefully not for their lyrics and song titles 😬) check out Trumpets Blare In Blazing Glory by the Canadian band Grenadier. Such a freaking killer debut album! Happy 2023, Simon!
@@ExplosiveAction I have been spinning the hell out of it this year on RUclips and their Bandcamp page (before it got taken down) and now I finally have some money to get it on Bandcamp, as Viking Music Distribution still has the album on their page.
Excellent review with lots of comparisons. I'm surprised that Goatwhore's "Angel's hung at the gates of Heaven" and Hath's latest (2022) release didn't make your top 20 list. There are lots of new bands on your list that I'll have to check out, though.
Great list and I will for sure check some bands unknown to me out. Here are a few of my favourites this year. Corpsessed - Succumb to Rot Fossilization/Ritual Necromancy - Split Desolate Shrine - Fires of the Dying World Chaos Perversion - Petrified Against the Emanation (EP) Death Collector - Death Collector (EP) Origin - Chaosmos Perilaxe Occlusion/ Celestial Santuary/ Thorn/ Fumes - Absolute Convergence (Split) Autopsy - Morbidity Triumphant Malefic Throne - Malefic Throne (EP) Deathcrush - Under Serpents Reign Esoctrilihum - Consecration of the Spiritüs Flesh Perdition Temple - Merciless Upheaval Decrapted - Bloody Rivers of Death Ataraxy - The Last Mirror Vermin Womb - Retaliation Phobophilic - Enveloping Absurdity Acausal Intrusion - Seeping Evocation Strigoi - Viscera Bloodbath - Survival of the Sickest Sépulcre - Cursed Ways of Sheol (EP)
Some great stuff in there. Didn't realise Escotrilihum had a new one. I need to get to Perdition Temple as a band. And the Ataraxy was a real "whoops" in this video and I hastily added it to the description honourable mentions, but really should have found it's way in the 20.
Dream Unending was my #1.. you won’t be disappointed. Suggestions: Jesus Wept “Psychedelic Degeneracy” Wormlust “The feral wisdom” Sunrise Patriot Motion “Black Fellflower Stream” Homeskin “Integument Crystallization” Qrixkuor “Zoetrope” Doubtsour “The Endless Shadow of Despicable Power”
Excellent and extensive list. Below some releases of interest you may have missed Bekor Qilish - Throes Of Death From The Dreamed Nihilism Vorbid - A Swan By The Edge Of Mandala Miscreance - Convergence Esoctrilihum - Consecration of the Spiritüs Flesh Negative Plane - The Pact Incandescence - Le Cœur De L'Homme Gaerea - Mirage SkyThala - Boreal Despair Inanimate Existence - The Masquerade Morbikon - Ov Mournful Twilight Occulsed - Crepitation Of Phlegethon Haunter - Disincarnate Ails Predatory Light - Death and the Twilight Hours Cheers!
This is the list of my favourite albums from 2022: 1 - Stangarigel - Na Severe Srdca. 2 - The Nest - Her True Nature. 3 - Dream Unending - Song of Salvation. 4 - Nechochwen - Kanawha Black. 5 - Grima - Frostbitten. 6 - Heltekvad - Morgenrødens Helvedesherre. 7 - Jade - The Pacification of Death. 8 - Worm - Bluenothing. 9 - Auriferous Flame - The Great Mist Within. 10 - White Ward - False Light. 11 - Pure Wrath - Hymn to the Woeful Hearts. 12 - Blut Aus Nord - Disharmonium. 13 - Escarnium - Dysthymia. 14 - Poisonous - Pillars of Doom. 15 - Vauruvã - Por Nós da Ventania. 16 - Soul Dissolution - Sora. 17 - Pantáculo Místico - Pantáculo Místico 18 - Hulder - The Eternal Fanfare 19 - Moonlight Sorcery - Piercing Through the Frozen Eternity 20 - Moonlight Sorcery - Nightwind: The Conqueror from the Stars 21 - Shape of Despair - Return to the Void 22 - Et Moriemur - Tamashii no Yama (魂の山) 23 - Temple of Void - Summoning the Slayer 24 - Vorga - Striving Toward Oblivion
Great stuff, nice to shout out Swartadaupuz cause what he's doing is remarkable - one of my favorite modern era BM releases is by another bands fronted by - 2021 Digerdöden album. Let me paste my favorite albums list - lot of doom there Messa - "Close" Trhä - "tálcunnana dëhajma tun dejl bënatsë..." Eric Wagner - "In The Lonely Light Of Mourning" Chat Pile - "God's Country Devil Master -"Ecstasies Of Never Ending Night Thy Listless Heart - "Pilgrims Of The Path Of No Return"
HNY to you man. It's been a solid year in the extreme side of things. For you, I'd recommend the Sphinx album in my honourable mentions. That's some fast blackened speed right there!
Great Picks... just ordered of the albums you mentioned. If you haven't checked out I Am The Night - While The Gods Are Sleeping and Pestilent Hex - The Ashen Abhorrence... the Emperor anno 1994 vibes are strong on those two albums. Both are my shared #1 album of 2022... and #2 Cosmic Putrefaction #3 Aaara #4 Sumerian Tombs - S/T #5 In Aphelion - Moribound
Ottima lista! E surreale la pronuncia di "Gramaglia" (Cosmic Putrefaction)...in quel modo il suono ricorda davvero il nome di un'oscura band Black Metal :') 10 - Daeth Deamon - Span of Æons 09 - Messa - Closer 08 - Revocation - Netherheaven 07 - Verberis - Adumbration of the Veiled Logos 06 - Panzerfaust - The Suns of Perdition - Chapter III: The Astral Drain 05 - Cult of Luna - The Long Road North 04 - Altars - Ascetic Reflection 03 - Immolation - Acts of God 02 - Aeviterne - The Ailing Facade 01 - Voivod - Synchro Anarchy
Hey Simon. I’m really enjoying your videos. Sitting here now listening to an ancient goldie Resurrection “Embalmed Existence” Do you know this one? Four horn salute to you sir.
Great list Simon. Check out Rend Them Asunder - Existence to Entrails brutal death metal from Scotland. Konvent - Call Down the Sun cavernous death doom from Denmark and my #1 album of 2022. Enjoy your spins Simon
@@ExplosiveAction The way I see it, Miscreance is mix made of Death, Pestilence and Atheist... And that is enough for me! Immolation album is a masterpiece and i was never an immolation fan, till now. Undeath has that groove.... Excellent! Anyway, wish you all the best in new year and many banger records to add to your collection! Happy New Year to all people around the globe!
Great video. Thanks. I like the way when you say "Jesus Christ! This is awesome album!" or "Oh my god! This is incredible album!" talking about all that obscure, sick, rotten sounds 🤣🤣 Many of the mentioned I don't know/ will check soon. Some albums worth hearing from this year for me (not necessarily in category "album of the year"): NEGATIVE PLANE "The Pact" BLACK DEATH CULT "Diaspora" MOLTEN CHAINS "Orisons of Vengeance" DESTROYER 666 "Never Surrender" (even if some of the reviews on MA are negative, for me killer album) RITUAL DEATH "S/T" FORLESEN "Black Terrain" ZOS "The Whole of the Body I Call ZOS" VOIVOD "Synchro Anarchy" ASSUMPTION "Hadean Tides" Cheers!
Hahaha, I am quite expressive with my recommendations I guess. The Negative Plane I agree is great and I need to spend more time with it, as I do with the Assumption album. Not heard the new Destroyer but Wildfire was solid - I didn't like the launch single from the new album though. Will look into the other bands you mentioned!
@@ExplosiveAction I will definetly listen to it. They are one of those "love at first listen bands". btw. dunno If you've heard, but check band called Taphos and their release from 2018 Come Ethereal Soberness (If you haven't ofc)
Wow, some obscure stuff there - ive not heard of any of em lol - im not up to date with new stuff, ive always been old school but i do try and listen to newer stuff when i can
@@ExplosiveAction brother im so sorry i didnt reply to u earlier re fleetwood . if i find il share LMAO need to ask u tho,,, if christ himself was now, would he not be a death metal artist... the absolute anti church etc lmao
This is truly the best AOTY list I have seen from anyone so far. You and I both have very obscure things on our lists. You should go to our channel called The Great Metal Debate and check out our newest video titled Episode 76. It is our Top 30 albums of 2022. The majority of my picks are underground black metal but I do have some slam and death metal in my list as well.
It's funny to see black/death metal top 20 of the year with only two albums recognizable. It's even funnier when they aren't any of the those 2022 albums that have won the universal acclaim among metalheads around the world: Misþyrming, Immolation, Watain, Deathspell Omega or Gaerea. And finally, huge overrepresentation of bands from Australia should be noted. I don't know how to comment on this because I'm still laughing out loud.
Just because "everyone else" is picking popular bands, why would I? That's something worth laughing at. I'm not Decibel Magazine. Watain are generic and not worthy of top 100. Immolation is fine but it's just the same as the last one. You should actually listen to Australian bands, because they are destroying right now. And you know how to comment, because you just did. Badly.
@@ExplosiveAction OK, I'll try all those aussies. And if I find just one BM album in your top 20 with music quality even comparable to the last Misþyrming, I'll buy it and eat it live with the cover.
Misþyrming is a good band, and I had their previous two albums, but upon re-listening to them over 2022 man I just couldn't get into them anymore. Even if I did, it came out December 16 - not a chance in hell I would have had a physical copy in time. The same happened with Svartidaudi. I think the Icelandic sound isn't working for me anymore. I acknowledge they are a good band. Remember, this top 20 is MY top 20 (plus honourable mentions) of things I enjoyed the most. I'm not doing a critical, musical analysis of who can play or write the best - just what I personally listened to and enojoyed the most. Thanks for watching either way.
Someone else commented that it referred to Delirium, so that makes sense too. Therefore "At the Foothills of Deliration" might mean "about to go mad" haha.
Thanks for the list and links in the description, much appreciated!
You're welcome! Glad it helps
Thank you so much for this list. I've tuned into about half of what was on your list so I'll have some great homework, here in March of 2023 haha. Big props on the Altars record especially, I listened to that one on repeat for about a week straight!
Such a great album!
Negative Plane and Chasm have to be in there for me
Negative Plane is great but I need way more time with it. It didn't click with me as immediately as the last album of theirs I had (which was the first) but I'm sure it will. The Chasm, man, I wish my CD had arrived in time!
Thanks a lot for including me in your chart (I'm the cosmic putrefaction guy).
Also well deserved for faceless burial, enormous release and incredible live band!
Cheers
Well deserved man! Love your Turris Ebernea project as well, and only just learned of Vertebra Atlantis this week! Agreed, Faceless Burial are crushing live
Great selection ! I come back very often to your list to discover a ton of incredible albums !! I'm into TZOMPANTLI now !! Hope this band will get more tribal in their next release, as much as Sepultura. Thanks & cheers from Belgium.
Thanks mate! Yes that Tzompatnli is excellent, and I agree that even more of the tribal sound could work for them.
Discovered your channel last year (2022) and have since devoured your content as and when it drops (working my way through the back catalogue). Was meaning to say hey at the Blood Incantation/Dead Congregation show in Sydney but never quite found the time! Have discovered a lot of new (and old) stuff through the channel so big thanks for your work!
Anyway, great list mate! Really need to check out that Jade record and start a deep-dive into Swartadauþuz' stuff, but have been running months behind the release train this year so have a heap to catch up on, so no doubt this list will change a few months into 2023. You had a bit of crossover with my list which ended up like:
Honourable Mentions:
Gevurah - Gehinnom
Golgothan Remains - Adorned in Ruin
Kampfar - Til Klovers Takt
Phobophilic - Enveloping Absurdity
Tzompantli - Tlazcaltiliztli
Top 10:
10. Immolation - Acts of God
9. Suppression - The Sorrow of Soul Through Flesh
8. Tómarúm - Ash in Realms of Stone Icons
7. Chaotian - Effigies of Obsolescence
6. Faceless Burial - At the Foothills of Deliration
5. Negative Plane - The Pact
4. Satan - Earth Infernal
3. Schizophrenia - Recollections of the Insane
2. Rotten Tomb - Visions of Dismal Fate
1. Doldrum - The Knocking, or the Story of the Sound That Preceded Their Disappearance
Happy New Year, best wishes and looking forward to more great stuff in 2023!
Hey mate! Absolutely tap me on the shoulder at a gig and say hi. I'll be at the key international bands coming up! Great list from you there, glad to see more love for Doldrum. In all honesty Chaotian and Phobophilic should have been on my list too, and I need to spend more time with The Pact. A couple here I don't know at all so will check out!
You sir are such a legend, awesome video !!!
Why thank you!
Digging that Doldrum album 👌. I'm getting a less chaotic Ulthar feel to it,love it, considering I'm loving everything about Ulthar at this point. Lots of bands to check out , thanks for the list of bands to check out.great video.
Two new Ulthar albums out in 2023!
@@ExplosiveAction I already pre-ordered them both.
Excellent Simon. Thanks for all the suggestions! Your taste in records is always a trusted guide for me. Happy New Year!
Appreciate that mate!
Great list of albums of the year. That Faceless Burial is most excellent. Arizmenda - Spider's lust in Dungeon's dust is a highlight for me this year. Saw them live twice this year and picked up their new album at their most recent show and really glad I did! Nothing else like it.
Not a band I'm familiar with, will need to explore!
several killer albums you mentioned I relly enjoy but still need to pick up.
well since you asked for some albums to check out here you go.
Morbikon-Ov Mournful Twilight
Vicious Knights-Alteration Through Possession
Cryptivore-Celestial Extinction
Ante Inferno-Antediluvian Dreamscapes
Ultra Silvam-The Sanctity of Death
Black Beast-Arctic Darkness
Cryptivore were in my honourable mentions! The others are new to me, will investigate!
Cheers for the kind words on the Eskhaton release Simon.
Thanks for such a furious release!
Great picks and deep (unknown to me) cuts, thanks for sharing. Finally checked out Faceless Burial after watching and IT PLOWS. Have spun the Ostots & Nocuturnal Triumph lots as well. Happy New Year!
Awesome man!
That was a pretty thorough list... really well put together video actually
Thanks mate!
Simon your charnel, Explosive Action, is incredible!! I tune in every time I see a new video you've posted and have checked out (bought) MANY of your suggestions!! This year's list has a lot of records I've put on MY own year end list! The AKOLYYTTI, the COSMIC PUTREFACTION and THERIOMORPH have been on a steady rotation... All the best man for 2023!! Keep up those "Updates" and be safe! 🤘🤘🤘
Outstanding! Thanks for the kind words mate. Have a great 2023
Nifty idea including an artist spotlight as part of your top list. I keep meaning to listen to the two Trolldom records. That Jade album would probably have made my top ten but I have only listened to it twice.
My Top 8, which includes a couple of post metal/post rock records.
1. Russian Circles- Gnosis
2. White Ward- False Light
3. Desecresy- Unveil in The Abyss
4. Panzerfaust- The Suns of Perdition Chapter III
5. Lost in Kiev- Rupture
6. Innumerable Forms- Philosophical Collapse
7. Vital Spirit- Still as The Night, Cold as The Wind
8. Specrum Mortis- Bit Meseri/ The Incantation
Cheers mate. Innumerable Forms would have rated higher for me if I had it longer, I'm sure.
Good list, and plenty things for me to look for. Some recommendations for you in case you've missed them. Mnima - Disciples of Excremental Liturgies (caustic black noise from Greece), Ashenspire = Hostile Architecture (think A Forest of Stars meets Chat Pile), Am Himmel - As Eternal as the Starless Kingdom of Sorrow (mystical black metal that feels like being in a religious trance), Bad Manor - The Haunting (Spoopy black metal that recalls Edward Gorey's illustration in both theme and mood), and Unyielding Love - Flesh of the Furnace (dissonant blackened death). Hopefully that gives some fun things for you to listen 😊
Thanks mate and cheers for the list! All new ones to me
@@ExplosiveAction It's always a pleasure to discover new music, and thanks to you I have a pretty long list as well. Oh, forgot to add one. If you liked the folk from Doldrum, make sure to check Vile Haint - Sacrificial Baptism in Murky Waters. Raw black metal with _deep_ roots in the southern folklore of the banks of the Mississippi. Exceptional stuff
Sounds excellent!
I like the sound of Bad Manor!!
The Faceless Burial's cover album is so beautiful !
Quality Seagrave!
Those are awesome death 💀 metal Albums Simon I should really check out those bands they seem really brutal. Happy Holidays 🎄🦌⛄🎉🤘
A tonne of brutality here!
Happy New Year. Keep Up The Good Videos.
Thanks very much for watching and subscribing!
Awesome list man👍🏼. Werewolves- From the cave to the grave is another great Aussie band that was on high rotation last year🤘🏼
Cheers!
Awesome list! 2022 has been a great year for Death Metal. Some of my tops this year (not in any rank order):
Faceless Burial
Vacuous
Universally Estranged
Chaotian
Sépulcre (Fra)
Phobophilic
Decapitated
Ripped to Shreds
I forgot Autopsy..and others I'm sure haha!!
Decapitated don't do much for me since Winds of Creation haha, but the rest here are all good - well I am assuming the Universally Estranged is, as I haven't got mine yet!
@@ExplosiveAction indeed Universally Estranged: Dimension of Deviant Clusters is quite good. Pry tied with Chaotian for my fav this year.. it will def be worth your patience when it's in your possession.
Super list. The Black Metal stuff is all new to me but I’m sure Codi is all over it. So much good stuff out this year. Great video sir
Cheers mate!
Apart from the Theriomorph and Altars Ablaze, the BM stuff here is for the most part unknown to me. But I have not been in my normal BM mood this year, to much great DM this year. Our lists will be very different this year, will try to shoot mine tomorrow. Jade is still glimbing on my list, great album. Altars is one I need some more time with. Not surprised to see Faceless Burial on top of your list. Have a excellent new year. Cheers.
Thanks mate, will check out your video list!
"It's really lose" that what she said. Great picks, some of these made my list. 🤘🤘🤘
HAHA! Cheers!
Wormrot's Hiss and Blood Incantation's Timewave Zero were my top metal-related albums. Was mainly on a country and folk tip this year. Loved your list.
Thank you! Wormrot passed me by entirely, need to listen to it - loved the previous album. Saw them live on that tour and they destroyed me.
Thanks for these great recommendations. I’ve been out of the black metal scene for a few years and wasn’t aware of most of these bands or albums.
Currently playing Vacuous and Jade and I’m impressed. After I digest those I’ll go through more of these albums.
Great stuff mate. Enjoy them!
Fantastic list Simon, echo your thoughts on how strong 2022 was for releases. That Jade album is superb, I love me some Ruins of Beverast so they instantly clicked for me. All the best to you and your family in 2023 🤘
Love the Jade! Cheers mate
Soild list right there Simon! Obviously I’m not familiar with the BM releases… but as I’m trying to educate myself a bit more on the different styles within the genre… it gives me a few more to check out! I really need to pickup a few of the others that you showed… especially… the ‘Blasphematory’ release! Always good to see you Simon & all the best for 2023… from your friend ‘Cark G’… lol!🤘🏻
Cheers, Cark! Lol. The Blasphematory is 110% a you release. So good. And yeah if you want something a little different check out the Doldrum
Was looking foward to this video, excellent choices Simon! Never got around to Faceless Burial among the swathes of other releases. I'm sure Marc G will forgive you... he'll love to hear your Enchanting thoughts about the album sometime in 2023.
Oh mate you need the Faceless Burial!
Great list Simon. I always enjoy your videos. I need to check out that Jade album. One album i feel flew under the radar this year is from Pharmacist out of japan. Andrew Lee plays guitar on the whole album. It has a Carcass vibe to it.
Yep that Pharmacist was great!
The new LP from Abysmal Lord 'Bestiary of Immortal Hunger' squeaked in on the heels of the last days of the year to make my number one pick up for me in 2022. One of the best black/death war metal bands around and improve with every release !!! 🏆🔥🤘😈🤘
Will check it out! For me my favourite war/bestial album in the last couple of years was the newest from Antichrist Siege Machine!
@@ExplosiveAction I totally agree that Antichrist Siege Machine album is amazing. I got stuck on them since their first demo and each following release has never disappointed and only improves.
I just picked up Eskhaton but since it was considered an EP I haven't gotten to it in my cramming to make my list. Excited to check it out!
I know I'm being cheeky putting it as number two, but I've bought albums shorter than that! And it rules too hard not to include.
You are allowed to break your own rules! I did too in my top 5:
1. Marillion - An Hour Before it's Dark (not metal at all)
2. Devin Townsend - Lightwork (metal adjacent?)
3. White Ward - False Light
4. Nechochwen - Kanawha Black
5. Nokturnal Mortum - To Lunar Poetry (re-recording of an old demo)
Surprised Marillion still exist I have to say!
You are REALLY awesome, sir! After seeing a handful of your videos I gotta subscribe!!! Its rare to find a guy like you with your knowledge and taste in metal, that isn't a straight up asshole.
Man I appreciate that mate. Thanks for subscribing!
blasphematory, eskhaton, tzompanti would all make my list too.most everything else i havent heard yet, so alot for me to check out, things not listed i would include= ares kingdom, acid witch, bloodstorm, disma, sacrocurse. hmm, thats all that comes to mind right now. in the realms of more traditional/doom eric wagner's s/t, early moods and savage master need mentioning. i know i'm forgetting a bunch of stuff, but oh well. feel that once i hear more of what ive missed it will have been a monster year, as its already shook out pretty darn good for me. cheers simon. have agreat new year
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Thanks mate! I forgot about that new Acid Witch. Not really checked in with them since Stoned
IDK if you like that really Running Wild-style melodic death metal that the controversial band Arghoslent makes, but if you like them (hopefully not for their lyrics and song titles 😬) check out Trumpets Blare In Blazing Glory by the Canadian band Grenadier. Such a freaking killer debut album! Happy 2023, Simon!
Ah yes I had heard this earlier in the year! I found it amusing they were on the same label as Arghoslent too lol. They sounded pretty good.
@@ExplosiveAction I have been spinning the hell out of it this year on RUclips and their Bandcamp page (before it got taken down) and now I finally have some money to get it on Bandcamp, as Viking Music Distribution still has the album on their page.
Excellent review with lots of comparisons. I'm surprised that Goatwhore's "Angel's hung at the gates of Heaven" and Hath's latest (2022) release didn't make your top 20 list. There are lots of new bands on your list that I'll have to check out, though.
Thanks mate. Not a fan of Goathore, though I did hear Hath online and it sounded decent!
Listen to the new Hath and Grand Belial's key albums
Will do!
Great list and I will for sure check some bands unknown to me out. Here are a few of my favourites this year.
Corpsessed - Succumb to Rot
Fossilization/Ritual Necromancy - Split
Desolate Shrine - Fires of the Dying World
Chaos Perversion - Petrified Against the Emanation (EP)
Death Collector - Death Collector (EP)
Origin - Chaosmos
Perilaxe Occlusion/ Celestial Santuary/ Thorn/ Fumes - Absolute Convergence (Split)
Autopsy - Morbidity Triumphant
Malefic Throne - Malefic Throne (EP)
Deathcrush - Under Serpents Reign
Esoctrilihum - Consecration of the Spiritüs Flesh
Perdition Temple - Merciless Upheaval
Decrapted - Bloody Rivers of Death
Ataraxy - The Last Mirror
Vermin Womb - Retaliation
Phobophilic - Enveloping Absurdity
Acausal Intrusion - Seeping Evocation
Strigoi - Viscera
Bloodbath - Survival of the Sickest
Sépulcre - Cursed Ways of Sheol (EP)
Some great stuff in there. Didn't realise Escotrilihum had a new one. I need to get to Perdition Temple as a band. And the Ataraxy was a real "whoops" in this video and I hastily added it to the description honourable mentions, but really should have found it's way in the 20.
Dream Unending was my #1.. you won’t be disappointed.
Suggestions:
Jesus Wept “Psychedelic Degeneracy”
Wormlust “The feral wisdom”
Sunrise Patriot Motion “Black Fellflower Stream”
Homeskin “Integument Crystallization”
Qrixkuor “Zoetrope”
Doubtsour “The Endless Shadow of Despicable Power”
I'm stinging to get that Qrixkuor ep!
Great list man. Thanks for giving me music to check out.
You are very welcome!
Some awesome underground diamonds found here. Many many thanks brother
You're welcome!
Excellent and extensive list. Below some releases of interest you may have missed
Bekor Qilish - Throes Of Death From The Dreamed Nihilism
Vorbid - A Swan By The Edge Of Mandala
Miscreance - Convergence
Esoctrilihum - Consecration of the Spiritüs Flesh
Negative Plane - The Pact
Incandescence - Le Cœur De L'Homme
Gaerea - Mirage
SkyThala - Boreal Despair
Inanimate Existence - The Masquerade
Morbikon - Ov Mournful Twilight
Occulsed - Crepitation Of Phlegethon
Haunter - Disincarnate Ails
Predatory Light - Death and the Twilight Hours
Cheers!
Thanks mate! That Incandescence was good, I need to give that another spin. Same with Negative Plane. Have to get that new Occulsed!
This is the list of my favourite albums from 2022:
1 - Stangarigel - Na Severe Srdca.
2 - The Nest - Her True Nature.
3 - Dream Unending - Song of Salvation.
4 - Nechochwen - Kanawha Black.
5 - Grima - Frostbitten.
6 - Heltekvad - Morgenrødens Helvedesherre.
7 - Jade - The Pacification of Death.
8 - Worm - Bluenothing.
9 - Auriferous Flame - The Great Mist Within.
10 - White Ward - False Light.
11 - Pure Wrath - Hymn to the Woeful Hearts.
12 - Blut Aus Nord - Disharmonium.
13 - Escarnium - Dysthymia.
14 - Poisonous - Pillars of Doom.
15 - Vauruvã - Por Nós da Ventania.
16 - Soul Dissolution - Sora.
17 - Pantáculo Místico - Pantáculo Místico
18 - Hulder - The Eternal Fanfare
19 - Moonlight Sorcery - Piercing Through the Frozen Eternity
20 - Moonlight Sorcery - Nightwind: The Conqueror from the Stars
21 - Shape of Despair - Return to the Void
22 - Et Moriemur - Tamashii no Yama (魂の山)
23 - Temple of Void - Summoning the Slayer
24 - Vorga - Striving Toward Oblivion
Great list! Some for me to check out. Listened to a minute of The Nest and that sounds wildly different.
Great stuff, nice to shout out Swartadaupuz cause what he's doing is remarkable - one of my favorite modern era BM releases is by another bands fronted by - 2021 Digerdöden album. Let me paste my favorite albums list - lot of doom there
Messa - "Close"
Trhä - "tálcunnana dëhajma tun dejl bënatsë..."
Eric Wagner - "In The Lonely Light Of Mourning"
Chat Pile - "God's Country
Devil Master -"Ecstasies Of Never Ending Night
Thy Listless Heart - "Pilgrims Of The Path Of No Return"
Agreed with Swartadaupuz, he's releasing excellent material. Trhä are great but hard to get physical copies of!
Happy New Year mate. Seen a few on other guys lists but lots you picked I think dig deeper than the usual picks.
HNY to you man. It's been a solid year in the extreme side of things. For you, I'd recommend the Sphinx album in my honourable mentions. That's some fast blackened speed right there!
Great Picks... just ordered of the albums you mentioned.
If you haven't checked out I Am The Night - While The Gods Are Sleeping and Pestilent Hex - The Ashen Abhorrence... the Emperor anno 1994 vibes are strong on those two albums. Both are my shared #1 album of 2022...
and
#2 Cosmic Putrefaction
#3 Aaara
#4 Sumerian Tombs - S/T
#5 In Aphelion - Moribound
Cheers for the recommendations and glad you picked up some of my picks!
Ottima lista! E surreale la pronuncia di "Gramaglia" (Cosmic Putrefaction)...in quel modo il suono ricorda davvero il nome di un'oscura band Black Metal :')
10 - Daeth Deamon - Span of Æons
09 - Messa - Closer
08 - Revocation - Netherheaven
07 - Verberis - Adumbration of the Veiled Logos
06 - Panzerfaust - The Suns of Perdition - Chapter III: The Astral Drain
05 - Cult of Luna - The Long Road North
04 - Altars - Ascetic Reflection
03 - Immolation - Acts of God
02 - Aeviterne - The Ailing Facade
01 - Voivod - Synchro Anarchy
Thanks for the list! I need to check out Aviterne
dope list, I really like the channel. Keep it up.
Appreciate that, cheers!
Great number 1 release of 2022 🤘
SUCH a good album!
You forgot the best black metal album of the year, next to Negative Plane. The mighty Grand Belial’s Key - Kohanic Charmers.
Not forgot, just not listened to! Always too many things to listen to, sometimes even the bigger name bands get lost in the mix for me.
Jade is really catching my ear. I'll have to pick that up. Thanks.
Fantastic album!
😉Great list🎵🎵🤘🎸👍Happy new year🎸🎵🎉🥳🤘
Cheers and to you too!
Hey Simon. I’m really enjoying your videos. Sitting here now listening to an ancient goldie Resurrection “Embalmed Existence” Do you know this one? Four horn salute to you sir.
Thanks mate! Haha yeah, a classic. Hope you are listening to it with the intros!
Great list Simon.
Check out
Rend Them Asunder - Existence to Entrails brutal death metal from Scotland.
Konvent - Call Down the Sun cavernous death doom from Denmark and my #1 album of 2022.
Enjoy your spins Simon
Thanks mate, and cheers for the recommendations.
Nice list! Suprised there was no Immolation, Undeath and Miscreance!?
Haven't heard Miscreance yet, I dig the other two quite a bit but neither made the list.
@@ExplosiveAction The way I see it, Miscreance is mix made of Death, Pestilence and Atheist... And that is enough for me! Immolation album is a masterpiece and i was never an immolation fan, till now. Undeath has that groove.... Excellent! Anyway, wish you all the best in new year and many banger records to add to your collection! Happy New Year to all people around the globe!
Great video. Thanks.
I like the way when you say "Jesus Christ! This is awesome album!" or "Oh my god! This is incredible album!" talking about all that obscure, sick, rotten sounds 🤣🤣
Many of the mentioned I don't know/ will check soon.
Some albums worth hearing from this year for me (not necessarily in category "album of the year"):
NEGATIVE PLANE "The Pact"
BLACK DEATH CULT "Diaspora"
MOLTEN CHAINS "Orisons of Vengeance"
DESTROYER 666 "Never Surrender" (even if some of the reviews on MA are negative, for me killer album)
RITUAL DEATH "S/T"
FORLESEN "Black Terrain"
ZOS "The Whole of the Body I Call ZOS"
VOIVOD "Synchro Anarchy"
ASSUMPTION "Hadean Tides"
Cheers!
Hahaha, I am quite expressive with my recommendations I guess. The Negative Plane I agree is great and I need to spend more time with it, as I do with the Assumption album. Not heard the new Destroyer but Wildfire was solid - I didn't like the launch single from the new album though. Will look into the other bands you mentioned!
Faceless Burial is so epic. Haven't heard the last one, but other releases are so great.
Oh man, their latest is their best. You will love it.
@@ExplosiveAction I will definetly listen to it. They are one of those "love at first listen bands". btw. dunno If you've heard, but check band called Taphos and their release from 2018 Come Ethereal Soberness (If you haven't ofc)
@@vodenapuska4796 Yes! Taphos are great, I have two LPs so far. I think there is more stuff coming.
You need to hear Freedom of Fear and Black Lava and Scaphis, 3 fantastic albums from Australian metal.
Not heard of any of them. What type of metal?
Thanks for sharing, a lot of new realease to checkout.
You're welcome!
BTW the excellent MORGAL - Nightmare Lord was released in 2021
Oh wow you're right! This is what happens these days with the record pressing plants so backed up, the cd comes out way before the vinyl.
I was going to mention, but you already caught it. That album is awesome! 🤘
White Rune, Satanic Warmaster, Black Beast, Kres, Wędrujący wiatr, Immolation, Owls Woods graves, Iku-Turso, Hate Forest, Drudkh...
Some good ones to check out! I've heard some people talk about Iku-Turso.
@@ExplosiveAction look for Red and purple white rune... albums of the year
Great list! Thanks for sharing. My AOTY 2023 - 'Moon of Foul Magics' by Autonoesis
You are welcome! Not familiar with that band, I'll look into them
Wow, some obscure stuff there - ive not heard of any of em lol - im not up to date with new stuff, ive always been old school but i do try and listen to newer stuff when i can
The old school rules but there's plenty of new stuff worth your time!
cool updatesimon i kinda find modern BM kinda dull you need too get into. Old school BM ,but their is some cool BM check out Megalith Grave
Love old school black metal as much as some modern bands! I'll take a look at Megalith Grave
Really cool list. But needs More finnish bm! Check out latest Aegrus EP. I think they have a full lenght coming this year too.
Will do!
Faceless Burial is in my top 3 along with Maul and Undeath.
My damn copy of Maul is still coming from Poland! Been in transit over a month
I wish you could hear ours! :)
yo simon hope u had a awesome NYE n Xmas :)
Cheers mate you too
@@ExplosiveAction brother im so sorry i didnt reply to u earlier re fleetwood . if i find il share LMAO need to ask u tho,,, if christ himself was now, would he not be a death metal artist... the absolute anti church etc lmao
@@ExplosiveAction elton soon. fan?? christ i need to hear death metal elton lmao
@@ExplosiveAction saw elton now lookin for the perfect death as cunt cover for Saturday night. it HAS to exist LMAO hope u had a rad week!
This is truly the best AOTY list I have seen from anyone so far. You and I both have very obscure things on our lists. You should go to our channel called The Great Metal Debate and check out our newest video titled Episode 76. It is our Top 30 albums of 2022. The majority of my picks are underground black metal but I do have some slam and death metal in my list as well.
I appreciate that mate! Thanks so much, and I'll look to check out your video too.
My Top 70 Albums of 2022 in two part >> ruclips.net/video/5K0ZCCxGQfo/видео.html - ruclips.net/video/802-q5JAhRY/видео.html
Thanks for sharing!
Like your channel!
Thanks for watching!
Blackbraid.
Didn't actually hear this one
@@ExplosiveAction If you have a minute check it out.
How good is moonlight sorcery man
Top shelf!
26:08 - having a bit of a stroke at this point.
I was at the foothills of deliration
Top 3 bands out of Australia, come on Simon 😂
Damn straight!
Australia is so under appreciated when it comes to metal. Great top 3
Gotta do my bit. Amazing albums
🔥🔥🔥
Where do you buy your albums
All over the place! Physical stores in Sydney, online Australian shops, online international shops, direct from bands often on their Bandcamp.
Ty for replying
LoG - Omens
What is LoG?
@@ExplosiveAction lamb of God
@@ExplosiveAction на мой взгляд это лучший альбом 2022года🇷🇺🤘
@@Admin-vo9nh didn't even know they were a band still! Was never a fan of Lamb of God, but I liked the early Burn the Priest album
First!
OH NO YOU DI'INT!
@@superpunkrotten6650 it was Led Zeppelin
It's funny to see black/death metal top 20 of the year with only two albums recognizable. It's even funnier when they aren't any of the those 2022 albums that have won the universal acclaim among metalheads around the world: Misþyrming, Immolation, Watain, Deathspell Omega or Gaerea. And finally, huge overrepresentation of bands from Australia should be noted. I don't know how to comment on this because I'm still laughing out loud.
Just because "everyone else" is picking popular bands, why would I? That's something worth laughing at. I'm not Decibel Magazine. Watain are generic and not worthy of top 100. Immolation is fine but it's just the same as the last one. You should actually listen to Australian bands, because they are destroying right now. And you know how to comment, because you just did. Badly.
@@ExplosiveAction OK, I'll try all those aussies. And if I find just one BM album in your top 20 with music quality even comparable to the last Misþyrming, I'll buy it and eat it live with the cover.
Misþyrming is a good band, and I had their previous two albums, but upon re-listening to them over 2022 man I just couldn't get into them anymore. Even if I did, it came out December 16 - not a chance in hell I would have had a physical copy in time. The same happened with Svartidaudi. I think the Icelandic sound isn't working for me anymore. I acknowledge they are a good band.
Remember, this top 20 is MY top 20 (plus honourable mentions) of things I enjoyed the most. I'm not doing a critical, musical analysis of who can play or write the best - just what I personally listened to and enojoyed the most. Thanks for watching either way.
@@ExplosiveAction Anyway, watched and subscribed. Thanks for the answer too.
Yeah lots of Australian bands here but he has a British accent? I noticed that was weird too. Anyways, great list!
Great selection
Cheers!
Delineation - mental derangement.
Another enjoyable video even though Faceless Burial is the only band I’ve heard of.
Someone else commented that it referred to Delirium, so that makes sense too. Therefore "At the Foothills of Deliration" might mean "about to go mad" haha.